Opinion: How Political Correctness Threatens the Military

8/28/2013 2:23PM

Editorial board member Dorothy Rabinowitz on how political correctness facilitated Major Hasan’s rise in the military ranks and caused his superiors to gloss over his bizarre behavior. Photo credit: Associated Press.

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... welcome back to Opinion Journal I'd ... wear this week I spoke with our Dorothy Rabinowitz about twenty dollars on trial and for good Texas it's known in sentencing phase and Dorothy reflected some on that her riffic about ... be ... thanks for being here ... the of ... the sun trial is now in its sentencing phase this week testimony is being taken from victims and family members and it's entirely possible that assigns you try to get life in prison or conceivably the death penalty ... you follow this trial very closely throughout an really would be a journo in what is your of what sticks in your mind ... of all this her riffic of that ... but sticks to murmur and it's not something that happened that the trial that it's the earnings certainty ... that none of this would've happened none of these hurdles would of been committed ... had not Kason superiors ... who trained him to be in U S Army psychiatrist ... fallen under the spell of political correctness has two mm on the SPY is ... up to the notorious jihad the sympathies expressed frequently in the spring ... who sent him forward with only the best recommendations for the year ... of offending Muslims sympathies and violating the laws of political correctness ... here was made in the sun ... and training ... making tea party speech it's how far back to the six down ... to mount his entire career ... as a trainee ... thinking speeches that so I'll bring his classmates justifying the nine eleven attacks that they will edit the classroom ... the the the the instructors had to stop it ... he walked in flowing robes he was connected with the market ... if one tenth of what he'd done that been committed by any of the student they would have been out of the writing entirely ... for Korea ... nonetheless you say well we can be ... Miller has been made to the psychiatrist in the U S Army ... and here's where it all began and I thought ... and ... I thought at the time and that during any trial of winter sun ... ghosts that remain in the defendant's Fox ... what could be ... some of those people who passed him on so what you're saying essentially is that these senior officers in the army were so ... it becomes so tuned ... to his lamb excise ability it's the fear of offending out of political correctness ... that they look the other way as the sun was behaving in obviously disturbing ways with the other way ... I know that that they're writing the answer apparently paralyzed because when it came for them to write ... their observations and recommendations ... not a single one ... that they're ... not a single thing you've done was ever recorded ... indeed ... he was put forward as someone who could ... really be one of the best possible candidates ... in our armed services ... by the way who was in the lowest percent though this class is there any evidence that the army has re thought some of these practices and policies and attitudes since the US on ... maybe it's hard to know ... everything is overshadowed by our knowledge that the department and still considers the shootings ... of ... workplace violence that which is an outrage in itself ... I think it's hard for the people who trained us on whether to forget ... what they were in essence guilty ... of putting into the world ... and it's probably something that will affect them ... no ... the keynote ... the day after the merit is the weekend after the merit is ... on when the first response of the highest ranking army officer ... who appeared on television talk about this one is ... you know ... it will be the greatest of tragedies ... if our diversity ... no aptitude diversity will and can buy this ... this is the greatest tragedy ... thirteen Americans ... shot dead ... and scores wounded and this is the great tragedy now ... the mindset like this is an easy easily